What is hidden in open Linux?

Sanjay Anand, TNNJan 23, 2004, 08.24pm IST

NEW DELHI: On a day when Microsoft CFO John Connors told a news agency that open source Linux continued to pose a threat to its Windows operating system, the company's Asia team was enlightening the media here that open source did not necessarily mean Linux and it certainly did not mean free.

In Delhi, however, Microsoft's Asia-Pacific CTO Peter Moore, flanked by his India team, IT research agency Gartner, IIIT Bangalore director and officials from four companies – which have moved back to Windows from Linux – made efforts to dispel myths about open source.

Why now, when the debate has been around for so long?

To that Moore said that there has been much "noise" lately about it (open source / Linux) and Microsoft wanted to present facts and inform users about them.